Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-08-10
DIED A pAuPER.
Last Days of a Judges
Daughter Passed In a
Poor House.
Thrown Upon the Cold World by
Life's Reserses---Buried by
Kind Friends.

OF one OF the supreme judges OF tho
United States, dying in an almshouse
after . remarkable career, was one of the
incidents occurring within the province
OF the Little Sisters OF the Poor. Her
name vas Miss Mary Baldwin. For
three months she had been an inmate of
the home Of the Little Sisters OF tho
Poor IN East Liberty. Sho-was over 80
years OF age, and 1t was supposed that
the oppressive warm weather fastened
her death. She vas the adopted daughter
of Judge Baldwin, who WAS quito q ma
tional figure in his time, and always de-
lighted In speaking of him as her father.
When she dad she did not know that
she was his daughter only by adoption.
She often mourned Of late what he
would have thought whom alive had he
known she WAC to have become an object
Of charity and die as such.
Henry Baldwin vas born in New Hav-
en-, Conn, in 1879. He graduated at
Yale college in 1897, and was representa-
tive In congress from Pennsylvania from
1917 to 1882, when he resigned. 10 then
made himself famous as a distinguished
lawyer, and was for many years associate
Judge OF the supreme court of the United
States. During his residence in Wash
tngton city he was q leader In the social
life there, and war spoken OF as a brilli-
ant gentleman. Many of his legal decis-
ions are still quoted to-day in the courts.
He died In Philadelphia, April 81, 1884.
President Polk filed the vacancy on the
suprsme court bench caused by his death.
Henry Baldwin's half-brother was Abra-
harn Baldwin, q famous statesman and
man OF letters in Georgia. Abraham
was q member of tho continental congress
from 1885 to 1907, and a member of the
convention which framed the constitution
of the United States, which he duly sign
ed. From 1859 to 1893 he was q repre-
sentative in congress- from Georgia, and
from 1893 to 1907 was a member OF the
United States senate. He was one of
those who voted for locating the seat OF
governma mt on the Potomac. He died
March 4, 1907, aged % years.
The only children he had was q sen,
besides his adopted daughter. He was
quite q wealthy man at one time, but
lost all his fortune through speculation.
When he saw that he was financially
ruined, Judge Baldwin called to his side
the adopted daughter and told her that
she would now have to try and make her
own living. He had given her q thorough
CANCAvIVn ~ LA0SlCf anu Eu0U GurOWu
upon her own resources she took mp the
profession until mp ysithin three months
Of her death. She presented the unusual
spectacle Of = woman 80 years of age sit.
ting Mt n plane AnrnessinG yenns neanle
In accomplishments. She had been raised
among luxurious surroundings. and ives
berry proud, which often caused trouble
yetTeen her and her pupils. She was
content to have just as many pupils as
would keep her, and would not hurry
them through with the lessons.
She WAS very peculiar in the matter Of
her dress. In winter and summer abe
would DO seen wearing Q calico dress
with an Old-fashioned waterproof cloak
thrown over her shoulders. Sometimes
she would wear a white and black plaid
shawl which was in tatters. She wore
on her head q big Quaker bonnet with q
green curtain. She chung to the hoops
which she always wore, and her sharp
feature S, surmounted by q pair of eye
glasses, made her q noticeable figure.
Miss Baldwin was a convert from Prot
estantism to Catholicism and, although
she never married, had been engaged
twice. She would never speak Of those
matters and people recognizing their
delicacy would never refer to them.
When her father died her foster brother
wanted her to live with him, hut she re-
fused and went ont into the world. She
made her home with several people, in
whose families she taught, and up until
the time of her entrance into the Sisters
home, lived with the family of John
O'Connor, on Casson street, South Side,
who kept her Tor a long time and treated
her as one Of the family. Thinking that
she could not live muchslonger and know
fling that she would be well taken care Of
by the Little Sisters of the Poor, she
went to their home. where she died as
above stated. Deceased NOT having g
relative In the world to look after her re-
mains, Mr.. O'Connor had the body de-
Gently prepared and inferred in HIS lot In
| st. Mary's cemetery.